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The following packages are due to be removed from Slink because of release-critical bugs filed against them. Please take a moment to look over this list and get back to me asap if there are any problems. ada-rm 27918 ada-rm: This large package should be architecture: all [0] () apple2 27590 apple2: should be in contrib, not main [7] (Tom Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) balsa 27726 balsa cannot be run [0] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie)) balsa 27894 balsa is linked against ancient version of gtk [0] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie)) cvs-pcl 22577 compile of pcl-cvs.el fails (cannot load "cookie") [149] (Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) dhcp-client-beta 18322 dhclient-script problem with "EXPIRE" [238] (Rich Sahlender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) dhcp-client-beta 19767 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory [211] (Rich Sahlender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) freetype2-dev 27814 freetype2-dev: should not conflict with freetype1 [0] (Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) gnome-gnothello 27405 gnome-gnothello doesn't run here [10] (James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) gnus 25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge [64] (Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) htdig 25412 htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute pathnames compiled in [70] (Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) infocom 21478 infocom: Integrating infocom interpreters [175] (Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) jdk1.1 27097 jdk1.1: error in installing jdk1.1: links are in a mess [18] (Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) jdk1.1 27330 jdk1.1: Files should be conffiles [12] (Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) jove 27219 jove: Jove wants /usr/tmp [14] (Loic Prylli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) junkbuster 25258 junkbuster: junkbuster has security holes [74] (Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kaffe 20980 kaffe: kaffe depends on jdk-common [186] () kdebase 23655 kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession [118] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kdebase 25903 kdebase doesn't include rights to distribute kvt [56] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kdebase 25974 kvt creates ~/.kde with root as owner and insane permissions [55] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kdegraphics 25627 kdegraphics violates copyright [63] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kdelibs0g 24643 kdebase: We have no licence to distribute KDE binaries when linked against Qt [90] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kdemultimedia 25628 kmultimedia violates copyright law (and debian policy) [63] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) kdeutils 25630 kdeutils copyright problems [63] (Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) knfs 27250 knfs (remote root exploit) [14] (Anders Hammarquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) libmagick4-dev 19332 libmagick: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67 [217] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott K. Ellis)) libpgjava 27753 libpgjava: depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which is now included in jdk1.1 [0] (Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) lists-archives 26384 lists-archives: Missing conffiles [40] (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) mozilla 27181 mozilla dumps core [15] (Debian QA group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>) netatalk 25598 netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64] (Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) pcmcia-modules-2 27395 pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box [11] (Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) pcmcia-source 26657 pcmcia-source: Needs this patch to work on 2.1.118+ kernels [32] (Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) pil 27495 package pil should be python-pil [8] (Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) qftp 27791 qftp depends on missing libary. [0] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert S. Edmonds)) qps 16635 qps: qps seems to be statically linked with QT and is in the wrong section [281] (Hanno Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) rt 23583 rt: lacking copyright [120] (Ender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) secure-su 26827 secure-su breaks findutils (And who knows what else) [25] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) strace 26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] (Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) tkstep8.0 19255 Tkstep8.0 doesn't mention dependencies on tiff, jpeg and Xpm. [218] (Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) vrwave 23436 vrwave should maybe go in contrib? [124] (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) xephem 19441 xephem-smotif: no-copyright-file LI#177 [217] (Frank Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) xswallow 25932 Xswallow should be in contrib [55] (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) yagirc 24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80% of people surveyed think they are above average drivers